UX Designer

Company: Leidos
Location: Rockville
Posted on: October 14, 2020

Job Description:

Description Job Description The Government Health and Safety Solutions Operation is seeking an UX Design Analyst will support the enhancement of the NHLBI's public website in Bethesda, MD. The successful candidate will work in an Agile and fast-paced environment on a development team supporting NIH scientists, researchers, and IT professionals whose mission is to solve unique and challenging problems. The position will support software development activities through research, design, and requirements analysis. Job Responsibilities User experience and digital strategy Develop use case scenarios, flow diagrams, site maps, wireframes, high-level functional specifications, task analyses based on personas and research. Integrate these artifacts into a comprehensive product design. Identify issues with the website's existing user experience and devise solutions. Propose UX and digital strategy product vision, direction, and roadmap to the Agile development team and customer. Make strategic UX design and digital strategy decisions related to core, and new, functions and features. Provide project team and stakeholders with recommendations, system enhancements and alternatives to improve usability, UX standards, accessibility, and SEO. Analyze and break down customer needswantsgoals into actionable tasks that affect user experience. This process includes data collection and analysis and UX research in best practices, standards, and trends. Plan information architecture by studying the site concept, strategy, and target audience envisions architectural scheme, information structure and features, functionality, and user-interface design prepares data models designs information structure, work and dataflow, and navigation evaluates information representation. Ensure existing NHLBI style guide and standards are applied or considered for all concepts. Communicate and work with other UX and SEO teams on deciding the right usability approach. Analysis and project support Ensure that the team always has an adequate amount of prior prepared tasks to work on. Provide support to the Project Manager in the day-to-day oversight of the project. Plan and prioritize product feature backlog and development for the product. Write complete, detailed product requirement documents, specs, and user stories, ensuring clear communication of these requirements to the development team. Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with digital strategy and UX goals. Develop and update UAT scripts as part of the release process. Assist in performing validation testing of development stories. Enter, update, and manage issues (Epics, Stories, and Tasks) using JIRA. Write easy-to-understand user interface text, guides, and SOPs. Produce high-quality reports and documentation with audits and summaries. Document the strategic decisions and key outcomes of meetings. Qualifications Bachelor's degree in communications, digital design, user experience, information architecture, marketing, information technology, or a related field or equivalent work experience 4-6 years of related experience. Strong communication and presentation skills. Strong collaboration skills and ability to work across teams. Must possess strong interpersonal and information gathering skills and the ability to relate well to others at all levels throughout the organization. Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving abilities as well as attention to detail. Strong organizational skills and ability to multi-task and successfully manage competingchanging priorities. Proficiency in Sketch, InVision (or equivalent tools) and Adobe CC. Familiarity with analytics, SEO, and accessibility standards. Understanding of digital strategies and best practices. Mobile-first design mindset with demonstrated capability and experience. Familiarity with interaction design and information architecture. or holder with ability to obtain a Public Trust Clearance. Additional Skills Familiarity with content management systems (i.e. Drupal, Wordpress). Knowledge of data visualization tools and best practices. Knowledge of HTMLCSS. hhsnih External Referral Bonus Eligible Potential for Telework Yes, 75 Clearance Level Required Public Trust Travel No Scheduled Weekly Hours 40 Shift Day Requisition Category Professional Job Family Software Development Leidos is a Fortune 500 Registered information technology, engineering, and science solutions and services leader working to solve the world's toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, homeland security, civil, and health markets. The company's 38,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Reston, Va., Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately 11.09 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2020. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com httpwww.Leidos.com . Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available here httpswww.leidos.comcareerspay-benefits . Leidos will never ask you to provide payment-related information at any part of the employment application process. And Leidos will communicate with you only through emails that are sent from a Leidos.com email address. If you receive an email purporting to be from Leidos that asks for payment-related information or any other personal information, please report the email to mailto . All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.

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